Greenwell Farms: Kona Coffee

Today, along with many other things, we traveled to a Kona Coffee Farm before heading to Hilo—Greenwell Farms!
At Greenwell Farms we started off with some samples of the coffee that is made on the farm— very strong and rich! We then set off on our tour. Our tour guide gave us the history behind Greenwell Farms, a tour of the property, and information about some of the plants and trees that the farm hosts.
Greenwell farms began in 1850 when Henry Nicholas Greenwell left England in hopes of finding his forever home in Hawaii. Henry and his wife Elizabeth would begin their journey in making and selling their coffee for the next 40 years. Greenwell Coffee hit the world plantform and became very well-known around 1873 when it was recognized at the World Fair in Vienna, Austria. The legacy of Greenwell Coffee has continued by Norman Greenwell (his great grandson) who developed coffee on Henry’s original land in the 1980s.
Today, the coffee continues to be 100% Kona coffee as it is grown and made all on the same land and some of the trees that were planted by Elizabeth Greenwell (the wife of Henry) still produce coffee beans at 100 years old.
Not only is there production of coffee beans at Greenwell farms but some fresh produce as well—such as avocados, bananas, macadamia nuts, pineapple, and a few others.
You could really feel the family aspect that Greenwell farms hold—from their original ways of producing coffee to the passion that each of the workers have to keep tradition alive, it was a truly heartwarming experience.Read more